Instant Picture Creator

Instant Picture Creator is a wrapper to produce images on demand for Web sites. It has filter management, and it's possible to add new filters. It can cache filtered images, works independently (no backend is needed), and is easy to integrate with existing Web sites.

It includes two basic filters for resizing images and manipulating colour palettes.

Currently it supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG.

Easy to use

Copy Instant Picture Creator on your server, configure your .htaccess (example is included in archive file) and start to us it:

http://your.server.com/path/to/picture.png?filter=Resize-width-150

You can use shortcuts:

http://your.server.com/path/to/picture.png?filter=thumbnail

Instant Picture Creator comes with cache handling and security helpers.

Get started

... from zero to Instant Picture in around 10 minutes.

1. Download and unpack to your server or use Subversion copy:

svn checkout http://instant-picture-creator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instant-picture-creator

2. Configure
3. Ready!

Get help

• How to use Resize filter?
• Mailing group

Dependences

Instant Picture Creator needs minimally PHP 4.0.6 with gd and hash extension. CompatInfo output is:

+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| Path                             | Version | Extensions | Constants/Tokens |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/*                          | 4.0.6   | hash       |                  |
|                                  |         | gd         |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/filters/Resize.filter.php  | 4.0.6   | gd         |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/filters/Palette.filter.php | 4.0.6   | gd         |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/instantpicture.inc.php     | 4.0.6   | hash       |                  |
|                                  |         | gd         |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/instantpicture.conf.php    | 3.0.0   |            |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+
| [...]/instantpicture.php         | 4.0.5   |            |                  |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------+------------------+